Artificial intelligence is hailed as the future of everything, but its own champions may be sowing the seeds of collapse.

J.K. Rowling’s The Hallmarked Man may be overlooked by some critics, but at 912 pages it’s a sprawling, Dickensian ride — furious, funny, compassionate — that shows why Strike remains crime fiction’s ...

Susan is seventy-two years old and comes to see me five weeks after abdominal surgery for a medical review. ‘I’m feeling great and am wondering when I can get back to things with my husband.’ I’ve ...

In 1986, universities were still a male domain. Today, lecture halls tell a different story: women are the clear majority, ...

In the Church, 'synodality' is often invoked as deep listening and shared discernment. Yet the silence of unanswered letters ...

I first met Frank Brennan almost 20 years ago, when I was in Australia as a part of an international Jesuit formation program. I had no idea who he was, the work he’d done over many decades with First ...

The release of DeepSeek’s new artificial intelligence model has shaken assumptions about the dominance of US tech giants. Amid stock crashes, claims of IP breaches and talk of a ‘Sputnik moment’, a ...

Yet another religious order or congregation leaves our diocese. A much-loved Vatican II-inspired archbishop dies. Our parish priest tells us that relieving priests are more difficult to find. These ...

This time last year, I was in Israel. I was staying at the Ecce Homo pilgrim house on the Via Dolorosa in the Muslim quarter in the Old City of Jerusalem. This was not just a tourist or bucket-list ...

The Argentinian Jesuit Jorge Mario Bergoglio was a serious contender for the papacy at the conclave which elected Joseph Ratzinger in 2005. The cardinals who voted for Ratzinger saw him as a faithful ...